The 10 best AI-powered recruitment platforms for agencies in 2027

1. 1

   Jarvi

   Recruitment agencies

   Its AI works on the whole mandate, from the first applications to the client report, with nothing billed on top.

   $158 per user per month, annual

   Try it free
2. 2

   Loxo

   Outbound desks

   You get sourcing data and AI agents on one contract, with part of the AI paid in shared credits.

   $149 Core, $199 Professional

   Compare with Jarvi
3. 3

   Recruit CRM

   Agencies that want public prices

   Every tier is priced in public, although much of the AI is paid in credits.

   From $95 per user per month, annual

   Compare with Jarvi

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A new mandate comes in, and by the end of the week 300 applications are waiting for you. We build Jarvi to take that reading off your desk, so we put it through the same mandate as nine other platforms. Here is what each one does for you, and what a seat costs once the AI is on.

Jarvi ranks first among AI-powered recruitment platforms for agencies, ahead of Loxo and Recruit CRM

Jarvi comes first because its AI helps you from the first applications to the client report, inside one published seat price. Loxo suits outbound desks that want sourcing data in the same contract, and Recruit CRM suits agencies that want every price in public.

Platform	Best for	AI in the published price	Entry price
Jarvi	Recruitment agencies	Yes, one plan	$158 per user per month, annual
Loxo	Outbound desks buying sourcing data	On Professional, with credits	$149 Core, $199 Professional
Recruit CRM	Agencies that want public prices	Partly, much of it on credits	$95 per user per month, annual
Recruiterflow	Agencies paying for a full AI suite	No, AIRA plan on quote	$119 per user per month, without AI
Bullhorn	Staffing firms with contract volume	No, Pro and Max on quote	$99 Starter, without AI
Manatal	The smallest budgets	Scoring yes, notes as add-on	$15 per user per month, annual
JobAdder	Agencies built on integrations	From Essential	On request only
hireEZ	Teams keeping their ATS	Larger teams quoted	$494 per month, solo
Juicebox	Plain-English sourcing	Yes, ATS sync on quote	Free tier, then $99 per seat
Zoho Recruit	Solo recruiters on Zoho	By tier	Free for one job

All prices were read on each vendor's own pricing page in October 2026 and are shown in US dollars.

Four tests on one agency mandate decide where each platform ranks

Every platform faced the same mandate, a senior developer role for a client, handled by an agency of five recruiters.

A good AI platform should give you back most of those ten hours and stay useful until the client has the CVs. We looked at four things on that mandate.

The 10 best AI-powered recruitment platforms for agencies, one by one

The table shows, for each step of the mandate, whether the AI takes care of it on the six full agency platforms and JobAdder.

Platform	AI scoring	Call notes	CVs to the client	Progress report	Moves on a reply
Jarvi	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Loxo	✓	✓	✓	◐	✓
Recruit CRM	✗	✓	✓	◐	✗
Recruiterflow	◐	◐	◐	◐	✗
Bullhorn	◐	◐	✓	◐	✗
Manatal	✓	◐	✗	✗	✗
JobAdder	◐	✗	✓	✗	✗

✓ means the feature is included, ◐ that it comes partly, on a higher tier, in credits or on quote, and ✗ that it is not offered. The table comes from Jarvi's internal comparison of 132 criteria, checked on each vendor's pages between November 2025 and March 2026 and updated with the October 2026 pricing pages. hireEZ, Juicebox and Zoho Recruit were not part of that comparison.

1. Jarvi, for agencies that want AI on the whole mandate at one price

Best forRecruitment agencies that want AI on every step of a mandate, without add-ons or credits to count.

With Jarvi, you open the 300 applications already ranked against your brief, each with a one-line reason. You can start your calls with the strongest profiles. We measure an average of 18 seconds per CV, which turns ten hours of first reading into about 90 minutes.

The same AI then stays with you through the calls and the approaches:

• You know why each candidate sits where they do. Every score comes with its written reason, and age, gender, photo, marital status and country of origin are left out by default. Our AI candidate scoring page shows how it reads a brief.
• Your approaches reach candidates where they answer. Sequences run on email, WhatsApp and Telegram from the candidate record, so every reply lands in one place.
• Your calls turn into notes without typing. The AI note taker summarises each call on the candidate file. When a meeting is booked, the candidate moves to the next stage on their own.

When the shortlist is ready, sending it to the client takes a few clicks. Jarvi AI builds branded or anonymised CVs with the submittal email, writes the mandate report and drafts contracts and job descriptions from your previous ones.

Getting started does not mean starting from scratch:

• One plan, everything in it. $158 per user per month billed annually (133 euros) covers ATS, CRM, note taker, outreach, CV builder and AI agent, with no tiers and no add-ons.
• Your database comes with you. You bring your candidates from CSV files or an export of your previous ATS, and your data stays exportable at any time.
• You can try it first. The trial is free and needs no credit card. If you already work in Claude, the ATS Claude integration lets you check and update your pipeline from there.

2. Loxo, for outbound desks that want sourcing data and AI agents on one contract

Best forOutbound desks that would otherwise pay for a sourcing database alongside their ATS.

With Loxo, the 40 profiles you approach on the mandate can come from inside the tool. More than 850 million professional profiles sit beside its ATS and CRM.

• What you get: AI agents that write the job description and screen up to 10,000 candidates per search. They rank a shortlist on seven dimensions, run outreach and take the call notes.
• What it costs: Core is $149 per user per month, billed annually and paid up front. Professional, which carries the agents, is listed at $199 in the credits section, while its plan card asks for a demo. The agents spend monthly credits pooled across the team.
• Your data: Loxo’s terms rule out training its AI on customer data, except de-identified data.
• Limit: the bill moves with your credits, and the contract is annual and paid up front. A heavy sourcing month means buying more credits on top of the seat.

In short, if sourcing is most of your work, Loxo is the full platform to look at first, once you have estimated your credit use. Our Loxo alternative page runs those numbers against a flat plan.

3. Recruit CRM, for small agencies that want every tier priced in public

Best forSmall agencies that want to see every price before the first call.

With Recruit CRM, you see every price before the first call, from $95 per user per month on Pro billed annually to $215 on Enterprise. Some of the AI comes with the cheapest plan.

• What you get on every plan: agents that fill custom fields, prepare candidate submissions and write candidate pitches.
• What runs on credits: AI sourcing in plain English across more than 800 million profiles, the meeting note taker, outreach messages and calls. Each seat adds a monthly allowance to a shared pool.
• Limit: Pro allows a single outreach sequence, which is tight when several mandates run at once. Much of the AI also depends on the credit pool.

In short, it is worth counting the credits a busy month would use before you compare Recruit CRM with a flat seat. The Recruit CRM alternative page sets the two side by side.

4. Recruiterflow, for agencies ready to pay a custom price for the full AI suite

Best forAgencies ready to go through a sales call to get a complete AI suite.

Recruiterflow’s AI, called AIRA, can find candidates, draft your approaches and write up your calls. It sits in a separate plan, and you only get its price by asking.

• What you get with AIRA: a matchmaker and AIRA Source across more than 850 million external profiles, an outreach agent and a note taker. Other agents update fields and prepare submissions, alongside job change alerts.
• What it costs: the Platform plan is $119 per user per month billed yearly, or $149 monthly. It covers the ATS, the CRM, email, calls and text, without AIRA.
• Limit: the $119 seat is not what you will pay with the AI, and AIRA’s price only comes after a sales call.

In short, AIRA is a complete AI suite built for agencies, for those ready to budget it after a call. See the Recruiterflow alternative page.

5. Bullhorn, for staffing firms ready for quoted AI agents

Best forStaffing firms with contract and temp volume and a back office to feed.

Bullhorn’s AI, Amplify, ranks the candidates for a job when you ask in plain words, as in the screen below. It starts on the two higher plans, both priced on quote.

• What you get on Pro: AI search and match, Amplify Chat, data enrichment, CV formatting and call transcription.
• What Max adds: agentic screening and matching, multi-step AI outreach, a website chatbot and interview scheduling.
• What it costs: Starter is $99 and Core $165 per user per month, neither with Amplify. Bullhorn Messaging is quoted too.
• Safeguards: Bullhorn’s responsible AI statement excludes gender, age and ethnicity from search and ranking, with third-party bias assessments on request.
• Limit: the AI and the messaging both sit on quoted plans, and Amplify is designed for contract and temp volume rather than a permanent desk.

In short, Bullhorn earns its place in staffing firms with real contract volume. More on the Bullhorn alternative page.

6. Manatal, for the smallest budgets that still want AI scoring

Best forTwo-person desks leaving spreadsheets, under 15 live jobs.

Manatal is the cheapest way to get AI scoring on your applications. It comes with the very first plan, at $15 per user per month billed yearly.

• What you get: AI scoring, AI job descriptions, semantic search, an AI copilot and branded CV formatting, up to 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates. The next tier costs $35.
• What costs extra: the AI Interviewer and AI Notetaker are add-ons paid in credits, both in beta with no public price, and outreach stays basic.
• Your data: stored in the United States under SOC 2 Type II.
• Limit: the first plan stops at 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates, and the note taker is a beta add-on with no public price.

In short, Manatal makes a sound first system for a small desk leaving spreadsheets. Our page on Manatal alternatives shows what changes once your live roles pass 15.

The four platforms below fit more specific setups, so we keep their profiles short.

7. JobAdder, for agencies that run on integrations

Best forAgencies whose payroll, testing and job board tools all need to stay connected.

• Strength: a full agency ATS and CRM, used by more than 25,000 recruiters and connected to over 200 applications. From the Essential plan, every candidate gets an AI summary and relevancy rating.
• Limit: no price appears on JobAdder’s site, and Lite, for teams of one to five, has no AI. Customer data does not train its models, and UK and EU data stays in London and Ireland.
• Who it suits: desks that depend on its integrations. Our page on the best JobAdder alternative lists platforms that publish their prices.

8. hireEZ, for teams that keep their ATS and add agentic sourcing

Best forTeams that keep their current ATS and want AI sourcing on top.

• Strength: EZ Agent sources, reviews and screens across more than a billion profiles from over 45 platforms, on top of the ATS you run. hireEZ says no candidate moves without your approval and reports bias audits by Armilla AI and Warden AI.
• Limit: scoring, submittals and the client stay in your ATS, and integrations lean towards in-house systems such as Workday and iCIMS. Chats may be used to improve its models.
• Price: solo recruiters start at $494 a month, with a seven-day trial.

9. Juicebox, for plain-English sourcing with a free entry point

Best forRecruiters who want to describe a profile in plain words and get names back.

• Strength: you describe the profile in plain English, without a Boolean string. Juicebox (known for PeopleGPT) searches 800 million profiles and shows why each one fits.
• Limit: it is built for the stage before anyone applies, and the ATS integration comes only with the custom Business plan. Hosting is in the United States only.
• Price: a free tier, then $99 per seat per month.

10. Zoho Recruit, for solo recruiters already working inside Zoho

Best forSmall desks already running mail, accounting and sales on Zoho.

• Strength: one active job costs nothing, the only free ATS plan among the ten, and the desk plugs straight into the rest of Zoho.
• Limit: Zia writes job descriptions and messages, but matching starts on Professional, AI summaries on Enterprise, and AI agents are still listed as coming soon.
• Price: from $25 per recruiter per month billed annually on Standard, to $75 on Enterprise.

Credits, tiers and quotes decide what an AI seat costs

Once the AI is switched on, the bill often ends up higher than the price on the pricing page. Each vendor packages its AI in its own way.

Five recruiters, one year	Annual total	What it leaves out
Jarvi	$9,495	Nothing: every AI feature included, at $1,899 per seat per year
Loxo Professional	$11,940	Extra credits once the 12,500 pooled credits a month run out
Recruit CRM Business	$8,100	1,000 pooled credits a month must cover sourcing, notes and every message
Recruiterflow Platform	$7,140	Every AIRA agent
Bullhorn Core	$9,900	Amplify

A heavy sourcing month empties a credit pool faster than a quiet one, and extra credits cost more on top. A useful question for each vendor is how many credits the example mandate would use. You can then multiply that figure by the mandates you run in a month.

If you would like the plan-by-plan view, our pricing page compares Jarvi’s single plan with the usual tiers.

The EU AI Act turns explainable candidate scoring into a buying criterion

Ranking the mandate’s 300 applications with AI counts as high-risk under the EU AI Act. Its Annex III covers any AI system used to filter job applications or evaluate candidates, and here is what applies to your agency, and from when.

That last date was originally 2 August 2026. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (the AI Omnibus), in force since 27 July 2026, moved it to 2 December 2027. The GDPR already covers every candidate record an EU agency holds.

Vendors publish different safeguards for scoring and candidate data

Jarvi and Bullhorn list the attributes their scoring ignores. Loxo and JobAdder rule out training on customer data in writing, and hireEZ publishes outside bias assessments.

Three more questions help you compare vendors on the same footing:

• Can a recruiter override the score, and is the override logged with a name and a date?
• Is our candidate data used to train your models, including in de-identified form?
• Where is the data hosted?

Your desk size decides which AI-powered recruitment platform pays off

Agencies of different sizes buy for different reasons, and the ATS you already run narrows the choice further. Pick the line that looks like your desk.

Whichever platform you choose, your team works best when every exchange lands on the same record, next to the interview notes.

If your placements start with an approach, an ATS WhatsApp integration gives your unanswered messages a second chance. The replies land on that same record.

Which AI-powered recruitment platform should your agency pick?

If you want AI on every step of the mandate, at a price you can read today, Jarvi is the natural place to start. Since every vendor on your shortlist will call its product AI-powered, the fairest comparison is a practical one.

If you are also weighing the CRM side, our top 10 recruitment CRM software ranking compares the same names on what they remember about a candidate.

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